{"product_id":"heart-of-reality-essays-on-beauty-love-and-ethics-9780268108939","title":"Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love, and Ethics","description":"\u003cp\u003eVladimir S. Soloviev (1853-1900), moral philosopher, social and literary critic, theologian, and poet, is considered one of Russia's greatest philosophers. But Soloviev is relatively unknown in the West, despite his close association with Fyodor Dostoevsky, who modeled one of his most famous literary characters, Alyosha Karamazov, on Soloviev. In \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, Vladimir Wozniuk offers lucid translations, a substantive introduction, and careful annotations that make many of Soloviev's writings accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Soloviev worked tirelessly in the name of the mystical body of the Universal Church. The vast bulk of his writings can be construed as promoting, in one way or another, the cause of ecumenism. His essays also display the influence of Platonic and German Idealism and strands of Thomistic thinking. Wozniuk demonstrates the consistency of Soloviev's biblically based thought on the subjects of aesthetics, love, and ethics, while at the same time clarifying Soloviev's concept of \u003ci\u003evseedinstvo\u003c\/i\u003e (the unity of spiritual and material), especially as applied to literature. Containing many previously untranslated essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e situates Soloviev more clearly in the mainstream of Western religious philosophy and Christian thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev (1853-1900) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVladimir Wozniuk is professor of government at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50371696165138,"sku":"9780268108939","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24a40b6f-60b0-4655-8292-be0b905dcb91.jpg?v=1728537366","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heart-of-reality-essays-on-beauty-love-and-ethics-9780268108939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}